This book provides a comprehensive overview of medicinal plants and their interaction with abiotic stress in terms of morphological, physiological, biochemical, and molecular variations, and explains the adaptation and tolerance mechanisms involved. It presents various mechanisms that become operative in medicinal plants to combat stressful situations. The book discusses the secondary metabolites and/or bioactive compounds produced in medicinal plants under abiotic stress conditions, and the use of biostimulants and/or phytoprotectants to alleviate the adverse effects of abiotic stresses on medicinal plants. Additionally, it is likely to address opportunities and challenges in molecular and omics studies of medicinal plants under abiotic stress conditions. Overall, the chapters are developed by eminent subject experts with due care and clarity and cover an up-to-date literature review with relevant illustrations. The book would cater to the need of graduate and post-graduate students, researchers as well as scientists, and may attract the attention of pharmaceutical companies/industrialists and health policymakers.
Chapter 1. Medicinal plants and abiotic stress: An overview.
Chapter
2.
Medicinal plants proteomics in response to abiotic stresses.
Chapter
3.
Medicinal plants metabolomics in response to abiotic stresses.
Chapter
4.
Secondary metabolite production in medicinal plants under abiotic stress.-
Chapter
5. Effect of temperature (cold and hot) stress on medicinal plants.-
Chapter
6. Effect of water stress (drought and waterlogging) on medicinal
plants.
Chapter
7. Effects of gaseous pollutants on medicinal plants.-
Chapter
8. Impact of salinity stress on medicinal plants.
Chapter
9. Impact
of aridity on specialized metabolism: Concentration of natural products in
plants.
Chapter 10.The role of PGPRs in medicinal plants under abiotic
stress.
Chapter
11. Effect of mineral nutrition and PGRs on biosynthesis and
distribution of secondary plant metabolites under abiotic stress.
Chapter
12. Impact of phytoprotectants on growth and yield of medicinal plantsunder
abiotic stress.
Chapter
13. Biostimulants and phytohormones improve
productivity and quality of medicinal plants under abiotic stress.
Chapter
14. Light (high light/UV radiation) modulates adaptation mechanisms and
secondary metabolite production in medicinal plants.
Chapter
15. Recent
Strategies to engineer alkaloid biosynthesis in medicinal plants.
Chapter
16. Genome-editing strategies for enhanced stress tolerance in medicinal
plants.
Chapter
16. Phytoremediation potential of medicinal plants.
Chapter
17. Phytoremediation potential of medicinal plants.
Professor Azamal Husen served as Professor & Head, Department of Biology, University of Gondar, Ethiopia and is a Foreign Delegate at Wolaita Sodo University, Wolaita, Ethiopia. He specializes in biogenic nanomaterial fabrication and application, plant responses to environmental stresses and nanomaterials at the physiological, biochemical and molecular levels, herbal medicine, and clonal propagation for improvement of tree species, and has published over 175 research articles. He is on the advisory board of Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK. Husen has been on the Editorial Board and the panel of reviewers of several reputed journals published by Elsevier, Frontiers Media, Taylor & Francis, Springer Nature, RSC, Oxford University Press, Sciendo, The Royal Society, CSIRO, PLOS, MDPI, and John Wiley & Sons. He is a Fellow of the Plantae group of the American Society of Plant Biologists, and a Member of the International Society of Root Research, Asian Council of Science Editors, and INPST. He is Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Plant Physiology, and a Series Editor of Exploring Medicinal Plants (Taylor & Francis Group, USA); Plant Biology, Sustainability, and Climate Change (Elsevier, USA); and Smart Nanomaterials Technology (Springer Nature, Singapore). Professor Muhammad Iqbal worked at the Government PG College, Uttarkashi, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, and Jamia Hamdard (Hamdard University), New Delhi. He was Professor & Head of Botany Department, Dean of Science Faculty, Chairman of Admission Committee, and also the Vice-Chancellor at Jamia Hamdard. He also worked as a Visiting Scientist in South Korea and Poland and as a Professor at the King Saud University of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Specializing in Developmental, Environmental, and Medicinal Botany, he has produced over 425 publications, including 10 books, 285 original research papers, 72 book chapters, and numerous technical reports,book reviews, and popular articles. In addition, over 220 abstracts of papers presented in botanical conferences go to his credit. A Fellow of seven prestigious scientific organizations, and a recipient of over a dozen academic awards, Iqbal has acted as President of the Academy of Environmental Biology (2006-2009), and Vice-President of the Indian Botanical Society (2003-2004) and the International Society of Environmental Botanists (2013-18). He has been the editor or a member of Editorial Board for 20 research journals of international repute, and a Series Editor of Plant Biology, Sustainability, and Climate Change (Elsevier, USA).
